TY  - JOUR
TI  - ‘An edifying spectacle’: A history of ‘tourist corroborees’ in Victoria, Australia, 1835–1870
AU  - Cahir, David A.
AU  - Clark, Ian D.
T2  - Tourism Management
AB  - Parsons [Parsons, M. (2002). “Ah that I could convey a proper idea of this interesting wild play of the natives” corroborees and the rise of indigenous Australian cultural tourism. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2(1), 14–27.] has persuasively argued that nineteenth century corroborees performed for non-indigenous audiences may be considered to be Australia's pre-eminent prototypical indigenous cultural tourism product. This paper extends Parsons' [Parsons, M. (1997). The tourist corroboree in South Australia. Aboriginal History, 21(1), 46–69; Parsons, M. (2002). “Ah that I could convey a proper idea of this interesting wild play of the natives” corroborees and the rise of indigenous Australian cultural tourism. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2(1), 14–27.] analyses of ‘tourist corroborees’ in nineteenth century South Australia to corroborees staged in Victoria during the pastoral period and the gold rushes of the 1850–1870s. It argues that an Aboriginal-grown ‘business acumen’ developed rapidly in the economic climate of the Victorian goldfields. It also provides a historical context to this commodification.
DA  - 2010/06/01/
PY  - 2010
DO  - 10.1016/j.tourman.2009.04.009
DP  - ScienceDirect
VL  - 31
IS  - 3
SP  - 412
EP  - 420
J2  - Tourism Management
LA  - en
SN  - 0261-5177
ST  - ‘An edifying spectacle’
UR  - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026151770900082X
Y2  - 2021/08/23/23:50:50
KW  - Urban and cultural heritage
ER  -